“I do feel a little bit like a guinea pig sometimes,” he said. “That the world or the press or whatever is sort of using me and a bunch of other young people right now as education points, [like] we’re teaching the world about all of these different things.”

It’s "about how, after a while, all of these parties and nights out kind of start to blur, and you get to the point where staying at home and making food and making out in the kitchen sounds like the ideal night," he noted.

That being said, though, Sivan's forthcoming LP will explore more adult themes, too — namely, his previous affair with a much-older man. Sivan said he began the relationship with his online-boyfriend when he was only 17.

“I’m worried because I don’t want to ever come across that I’m condoning that or anything like it," he said. "But I felt, greater than all of those worries, a responsibility to tell that true story — of the curious gay kid who puts himself in some kind of shady situation to find a connection, like all of us crave.”